The writer and director Steven Berkoff adapted several of Kafka's novels into plays and directed them for stage.

She has worked as a writer for the Sydney Theatre since 2001, and in addition to her own work, has adapted other plays.

The writer, Dennis Potter, adapted his earlier television play, Schmoedipus (1974), changing the setting from London to the United States.

But they felt he had departed from the source material too much and had another writer adapt it.

A prolific writer and a founding member of the Playwrights' Company, Howard ultimately wrote or adapted more than seventy plays; he also directed and produced a number of works.

This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance.

As a writer of screenplays both original and adapted, I say be happy, Mr. Schiff, with being considered a fine adaptor of the original work of others.

Other writers adapted the stories for television and were credited as the "scriptwriter".

Mr. Ninan's wife, Pamela, and two other writers are now adapting for young Indian readers the English-language Good News Bible for Children.

But the austere, bearded 76-year-old writer, a man revered and feared as a 20th-century prophet, has adapted quite nimbly to the mass media revolution that swept his country in his absence.